Biofuels?

If we were to replace oil with biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel all of our problems would not be solved. Because biofuels are derived from agricultural crops they are essentially renewable. Since they are grown domestically biofuels will reduce our dependence on foreign sources. They also emit less pollution than traditional petroleum-based gasoline and diesel fuels no contributing to the issue of global climate change. Yes these are all good things and they may be easy to use but they are hard to find especially when it comes to filling up your traditional gasoline car. The lack of ethanol or biodiesel pumps is what is very complicating. Another complication derived from switching to biofuels involves the challenge of growing enough crops to meet demand. We would need to create much open land through deforestation in order to accumulate for the demand. Due to the fact that corn would be in such high demand in order to be converted into ethanol the price of corn as food would increase. Many people dependent on these crops would see a tremendous rise in the price of these crops. Additionally does producing ethanol really generate all that much energy? Some say that the amount of energy in order to produce ethanol outweighs that of which ethanol itself would generate. If this were the case this would just not add up. Biofuels are still being researched but it seems that we would have to find other alternatives additional to biofuels in order to resolve our current issues.